Swiss boffins have been testing SMS-equipped sheep to see if they can send a warning text message when the big, bad wolf approaches, and it looks like they can.
The sheep don't voluntarily send the message, but a heart-rate monitor fitted to a sheep's collar can detect when the animal is stressed, and automatically sends an …

But how many times.....

Frikkin' lasers...

Obvious development - a squad of laser-equipped (homing missile, tactical nuke, take your pick) sheep in each flock. Rearward facing of course, since presumably the sheep are just bright enough to run *away* from not toward the wolf... No need for the shepherd to get out of bed, even.

Levels of difficulty

"British sheep don't have to worry about wolves, and rarely worry about rustlers either, in fact they don't even flock properly, and need walls and fences keep them together*. ...

* Your correspondent once worked on a game based around sheep, including several months spent developing sheep-flocking algorithms, so was very disappointed to discover this fact."

So if British sheep don't flock, they are more difficult to gather together into pens. Does this mean that for the computer version of "One Man and his Dog" our correspondent was working on, would use cowardly foreign sheep at the lower levels and more independent-minded, rebellious British sheep at higher levels?

Imagine a Boss Sheep at the end of each level! Could the Border Collie be upgraded with a "tactical mint sauce" option?